2 papers
cs.CL2025
Can Confidence Estimates Decide When Chain-of-Thought Is Necessary for LLMs?
Samuel Lewis-Lim, Xingwei Tan, Zhixue Zhao +1
Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a common technique for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). However, extended reasoning is often unnecessary and s…
cs.AI2025
Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?
Samuel Lewis-Lim, Xingwei Tan, Zhixue Zhao +1
Recent work has demonstrated that Chain-of-Thought (CoT) often yields limited gains for soft-reasoning problems such as analytical and commonsense reasoning. CoT can also be unfait…